Battlement Mesa Real Estate

Battlement Mesa, located midway between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs is a scenic-filled, 3,200-acre, weather protected mesa overlooking the Colorado River.

The Battlement Mesa championship golf course is one of the finest in Western Colorado.

Hiking, biking and jogging trails run throughout the community and the 53,000 sq. ft. activity center includes an Olympic-sized pool, hot tub, sauna, fitness center, basketball, volleyball and racquetball courts.

Dedicated open space of 767 acres attracts elk, deer, and eagles and provides endless unobstructed views.

This master planned community is divided into many neighborhoods offering a wide array of housing for all ages.

Early settlers are rumored to have named the area for the rock formation overlooking the town.

They though it resembled the upper walls of medieval castles.

Battlement Mesa (which is unincorporated) lies west of Rifle. 

Rifle and Parachute are nestled at the base of a vast mountain complex which we call the Bookcliffs, but which are officially called the Roan Cliffs. 

The Bookcliffs are composed of oil shale, which is a shale which actually burns because of the high oil content. 

Battlement Mesa was founded by Exxon during the 1980s during the most recent oil shale boom that went bust. 

The area between Rifle and Parachute is dotted with natural gas wells. 

In the 1970s, the federal government set off two small underground nuclear explosions near the unincorporated community of Rulison.

This was an experiment to see if the tight porespaces in the rock formations could be fractured so that oil and gas could migrate further distances into existing wellbores.

This would reduce the necessity of drilling more wells and lessen the impact on the enviroment.

Although the experiment was a technical success, no further use of this technology has been utilized due to public concern.